marceline!

I mean age verification only for NSFW websites sounds like a good idea on paper but what if a minor used a fake ID or worse, entered their information on a really corrupt website potentially run by predators? God forbid let-alone if someone hacked ANY website with age verification and stole all that info of countless people?

so far, there's now a total of 60 co-sponsors.

for now, please start calling your house reps.

apologies if the source is not as reliable. however, it is telling the truth. check out the cosponsors page for confirmation.

Call your senators and representatives and House Leadership:

Steve Scalise: (202) 225-3015

Mike Johnson: (202) 225-2777

CALL SCRIPT:

If you live in Australia, call your senators and tell them to oppose the under 16 social media ban.

You do not have to completely give up youtube! You just have to do what you can. Just because someone does great without any youtube at all doesn’t mean that what you have to do as well. Cut down, use an ad blocker, or watch through another app/website like listen on repeat. Hell, even just spread the word!

Plus, you don’t have to quit cold turkey! You can ween off slowly, or quickly (what ever’s best for you)

^ yes that is a link ^

You are at the grocery store. You pick up a nice, girthy zucchini. You head over to the oils and pick up a thing of olive oil. Then a packet of condoms.

Satisfied with your selections, you head to the cashier. As you place the items on the conveyor, a voice shouts: "DON'T SELL THOSE! THAT'S GOING UP A BUTT!"

And then for some reason, the cashier agrees. Then the guy who shouted, this fuckass guy in a suit, marches up to the counter and starts demanding that the store never sell any vegetables that could be put up a butt. He starts out pointing at the zucchinis and cucumbers and carrots, but you heard what he said: he's effectively banning every vegetable, just enforcing it selectively.

You ask the cashier if he's corporate or something. The cashier says no. The manager? No. He works here at least? No.

Who the fuck is he, then?

Well, the cashier explains, he's the bank manager from the next street over. He's taken up a moral crusade against vegetables that might go into rectums and if they don't obey him, he won't take anyone's paychecks or any money from any store that opposes him. And his bank is the only bank in the region, so it'd be a huge hassle for the business and the employees.

Whether you’ve been youtube free the whole time, youtube limited, found out late, or are just finding out now, congrats on giving a big middle finger to a wack cooperation

I’m sure we’ve all had times where we wish we could just watch youtube (I sure have) but just think of how your life has improved without it. For me, it’s not wasting hours on shorts, it’s reading articles instead of trusting whatever a youtuber says, and it’s not getting involved in internet drama about people I’ve never even heard of. I’ve started exploring my passions and hobbies, and finding new ones!

So for folks in the us, can you please call and demand section 230 be protected, not repealed? Its gonna be a problem if that gets repealed sinces it allows for protection for sites who host user-generated content, including any nsfw content.

I've been seeing a lot of people feel guilty about breaking their boycott for various reasons, school, mental health and other stuff.

Well, I just wanna say this to those who feel guilt. It's okay that you broke your boycott, wanna know why? Cause not everyone can do a boycott of YouTube, it's an unfortunate thing, but that's the truth. I know you feel guilty over you having to watch a video for school or having to watch a video because your feeling hurt right now, but you don't have to.

What I'm trying to say is that some people can't do a full on boycott, they just can't. I wished everyone could, but for some that's not an option.

But let me something, just because you watched one or two videos in the last two weeks, mean nothing, what matters is that you boycotted in all of that time.

Heck it doesn't even matter if your not fully boycotting, you could just be cutting down your YouTube hours in half, or maybe just using front ends or sharing videos to your friends. Sure that is still giving traffic, but it's far far less traffic than YouTube is used to getting from you.

What matters is that your cutting down on your YouTube time and that's great! If you are able to, try to fully boycott and get rid of YouTube than please do that, that would be incredible! But if you can't thats fine too, I just implore to try to limit yourself as much as you can, use apps to limit how much you go on the app, use frontends, download videos and share them with people.

I want everyone to know, that it is okay that some of you can't boycott, as long as your trying to reduce your traffic as much as you can, that's enough for me. Please, your mental health is so much more important than most realize, take care of yourself. Ignore everyone who is trying to make you feel bad about not fully boycotting.